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Sep. 26th, 2006 05:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valkyriezaI blame every single movie that has a romantic setting of a bored single woman meeting her dream man sitting in the bar in the hotel. Starting with Casablanca.
Scenario 1
She is a woman disillusioned in love, he is a single rich executive whose private jet ran into engine trouble and so he has decided to spend the evening within the bar.
Scenario 2
She is a perky busy fashion designer and he is a broken lone wolf of a cop who comes to the bar to drown his sorrows, they meet as his dark past catches up with him.
Scenario 3
He is a sweet, but unassuming guy who is sighing over an unattainable beauty when the hotel is overrun withFar Eastern tourists..err terorrists and manages to save the day and get the girl, finishing his triumph in the same hotel bar.
PUH-LEASE! I have been in several hotels over the years and for most people, the hotel bars are too expensive, easily 3-4 times the nomal value. And as for the people frequenting them, on average, they are mainly married men who are out to have a quick fuck whilst away from the watchful eyes of their wives, or visa versa. In my experience, all the cute guys are out in the funky bar in a trendy part of the city, the business executives or high profile business men/women, who arrived without their spouses are off sleeping, exhausted by a hectic schedule. The other choice is presented in a form of youngish men, who are also after a quick fuck, but probably lack the weding band, instead possesing the emotional maturity of a 15 year old in spring break mood.
So, movies lie, we are indoctorinated by those stupid scenarios and assume that those of us, who travel will have an encounter like that at least once in our lifetime. I suppose, in the older days, one had to find some form of entertainment. Now, that there is wireless Internet access I don't see the point of hotel bars, much to the dissapointment of those with a full range of cheesy pick up lines.
Scenario 1
She is a woman disillusioned in love, he is a single rich executive whose private jet ran into engine trouble and so he has decided to spend the evening within the bar.
Scenario 2
She is a perky busy fashion designer and he is a broken lone wolf of a cop who comes to the bar to drown his sorrows, they meet as his dark past catches up with him.
Scenario 3
He is a sweet, but unassuming guy who is sighing over an unattainable beauty when the hotel is overrun with
PUH-LEASE! I have been in several hotels over the years and for most people, the hotel bars are too expensive, easily 3-4 times the nomal value. And as for the people frequenting them, on average, they are mainly married men who are out to have a quick fuck whilst away from the watchful eyes of their wives, or visa versa. In my experience, all the cute guys are out in the funky bar in a trendy part of the city, the business executives or high profile business men/women, who arrived without their spouses are off sleeping, exhausted by a hectic schedule. The other choice is presented in a form of youngish men, who are also after a quick fuck, but probably lack the weding band, instead possesing the emotional maturity of a 15 year old in spring break mood.
So, movies lie, we are indoctorinated by those stupid scenarios and assume that those of us, who travel will have an encounter like that at least once in our lifetime. I suppose, in the older days, one had to find some form of entertainment. Now, that there is wireless Internet access I don't see the point of hotel bars, much to the dissapointment of those with a full range of cheesy pick up lines.
